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| 28.10.2005 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | L 286/1 |
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1719/2005
of 27 October 2005
amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (1), and in particular Articles 9 and 12 thereof,
Whereas:
| (1) | Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 established a goods nomenclature, hereinafter referred to as the ‘Combined Nomenclature’, to meet, at one and the same time, the requirements of the Common Customs Tariff, the external trade statistics of the Community and other Community policies concerning the importation or exportation of goods. |
| (2) | In the interests of legislative simplification, it is appropriate to modernise the Combined Nomenclature and to adapt its structure. |
| (3) | It is necessary to amend the Combined Nomenclature in order to take account of the following: changes in requirements relating to statistics and to commercial policy, changes made in order to fulfil international commitments, technological and commercial developments, the need to align or clarify texts, and the need for terminological adjustments for the sake of consistency in the languages of certain Member States which acceded in 2004. |
| (4) | In accordance with Article 12 of Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, Annex I to that Regulation should be replaced, with effect from 1 January 2006, by the complete version of the Combined Nomenclature, together with the autonomous and conventional rates of duty resulting from measures adopted by the Council or by the Commission. |
| (5) | The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Customs Code Committee, |
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 2006.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 27 October 2005.
For the Commission
László KOVÁCS
Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 493/2005 (OJ L 82, 31.3.2005, p. 1).
ANNEX I
COMBINED NOMENCLATURE
SUMMARY
PART ONE — PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS
Section I — General rules
| A. | General rules for the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature |
| B. | General rules concerning duties |
| C. | General rules applicable both to nomenclature and to duties |
Section II — Special provisions
| A. | Goods for certain categories of ships, boats and other vessels and for drilling or production platforms |
| B. | Civil aircraft and goods for use in civil aircraft |
| C. | Pharmaceutical products |
| E. | Containers and packing materials |
| F. | Favourable tariff treatment by reason of the nature of the goods |
Signs, abbreviations and symbols
Supplementary units
PART TWO — SCHEDULE OF CUSTOMS DUTIES
Chapter
Section I
Live animals; animal products
| 2 | Meat and edible meat offal |
| 3 | Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates |
| 4 | Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included |
| 5 | Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included |
Section II
Vegetable products
| 6 | Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage |
| 7 | Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers |
| 8 | Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons |
| 9 | Coffee, tea, maté and spices |
| 11 | Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten |
| 12 | Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder |
| 13 | Lac; gums, resins and other vegetable saps and extracts |
| 14 | Vegetable plaiting materials; vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included |
Section III
Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
| 15 | Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes |
Section IV
Prepared foodstuffs; beverages, spirits and vinegar; tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
| 16 | Preparations of meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates |
| 17 | Sugars and sugar confectionery |
| 18 | Cocoa and cocoa preparations |
| 19 | Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products |
| 20 | Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants |
| 21 | Miscellaneous edible preparations |
| 22 | Beverages, spirits and vinegar |
| 23 | Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal fodder |
| 24 | Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes |
Section V
Mineral products
| 25 | Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement |
| 27 | Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes |
Section VI
Products of the chemical or allied industries
| 28 | Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes |
| 30 | Pharmaceutical products |
| 32 | Tanning or dyeing extracts; tannins and their derivatives; dyes, pigments and other colouring matter; paints and varnishes; putty and other mastics; inks |
| 33 | Essential oils and resinoids; perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations |
| 34 | Soap, organic surface-active agents, washing preparations, lubricating preparations, artificial waxes, prepared waxes, polishing or scouring preparations, candles and similar articles, modelling pastes, ‘dental waxes’ and dental preparations with a basis of plaster |
| 35 | Albuminoidal substances; modified starches; glues; enzymes |
| 36 | Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations |
| 37 | Photographic or cinematographic goods |
| 38 | Miscellaneous chemical products |
Section VII
Plastics and articles thereof; rubber and articles thereof
| 39 | Plastics and articles thereof |
| 40 | Rubber and articles thereof |
Section VIII
Raw hides and skins, leather, furskins and articles thereof; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silkworm gut)
| 41 | Raw hides and skins (other than furskins) and leather |
| 42 | Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silkworm gut) |
| 43 | Furskins and artificial fur; manufactures thereof |
Section IX
Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal; cork and articles of cork; manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketware and wickerwork
| 44 | Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal |
| 45 | Cork and articles of cork |
| 46 | Manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketware and wickerwork |
Section X
Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulosic material; recovered (waste and scrap) paper or paperboard; paper and paperboard and articles thereof
| 47 | Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulosic material; recovered (waste and scrap) paper or paperboard |
| 48 | Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard |
| 49 | Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans |
Section XI
Textiles and textile articles
| 51 | Wool, fine or coarse animal hair; horsehair yarn and woven fabric |
| 53 | Other vegetable textile fibres; paper yarn and woven fabrics of paper yarn |
| 55 | Man-made staple fibres |
| 56 | Wadding, felt and nonwovens; special yarns; twine, cordage, ropes and cables and articles thereof |
| 57 | Carpets and other textile floor coverings |
| 58 | Special woven fabrics; tufted textile fabrics; lace; tapestries; trimmings; embroidery |
| 59 | Impregnated, coated, covered or laminated textile fabrics; textile articles of a kind suitable for industrial use |
| 60 | Knitted or crocheted fabrics |
| 61 | Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted |
| 62 | Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted |
| 63 | Other made-up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags |
Section XII
Footwear, headgear, umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding-crops and parts thereof; prepared feathers and articles made therewith; artificial flowers; articles of human hair
| 64 | Footwear, gaiters and the like; parts of such articles |
| 65 | Headgear and parts thereof |
| 66 | Umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding crops and parts thereof |
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